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Discouraging Data

In this commendably balanced story by The New York Times’ Andy Revkin about the recent NASA temperature data fiasco, a certain someone at NASA…

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Lott Vindicated?

Some readers may remember the long-running defamation suit between John “Freedomnomics” Lott and Steven “Freakonomics” Levitt. Defamation suits are rarely settled in the plaintiff’s favor,…

Law and Litigation

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Derby Winners

Eli, Interesting points, but I don’t think that winning times are a particularly useful metric in horse racing. The Epsom Derby has seen its winning…

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Market Signal

It is a tenet of free market environmentalism that market signals provide information about the environment and its value. Therefore, when people stop buying beachfront…

Consumer Freedom

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Smearing Coal

Readers of the Wall Street Journal this morning will have noticed several really expensive ads depicting pretty faces smeared with coal dust and the headline…

Energy and Environment

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Save the World by Cooking

My wife and I are fans* of in-your-face chef Gordon Ramsay’s program The F Word, which airs on BBC America (but which is actually…